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The juvenile justice system : delinquency, processing, and the law /

Champion, Dean J.

The juvenile justice system : delinquency, processing, and the law / Dean John Champion. - Custom ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2004. - xvi, 589 p. : ill., forms ; 28 cm.+ PCP guide to research navigator for Westwood college

Taken from:The juvenile justice system : delinquency, processing, and the law, 4th ed. by Dean John Champion

Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-570) and indexes.

An introduction to juvenile justice in the United States -- Measuring delinquency : types of offenders and trends -- Theories of delinquency -- An overview of the juvenile justice system -- The legal rights of juveniles -- Juveniles and the police -- Intake and preadjudicatory processing -- Prosecutorial decision making in juvenile justice -- Classification and preliminary treatment : waivers and other alternatives -- The adjudicatory process : dispositional alternatives -- Nominal sanctions : warnings, diversion, and alternative dispute resolution -- Juvenile probation and community-based corrections -- Juvenile corrections : custodial sanctions and parole.

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